If you click on "reply" on the blog posts in the front page, you're taken to the post in the "Blog Post" forum - which is reply-disabled.

Similarly the comments counter seems to be related to the posts in that forum rather than the Blog Discussions forum.

I see that the latest post is what shows up on the front page - so unless that behaviour can be changed somehow, can the links be diverted to the discussion forum? It doesn't seem to *quite* work at the moment

I know this is early days though

Cicero wrote:"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language"

Yeah, that is a pain. I originally thought that the first post in the topic would appear on the front page but then I found out that wasn't the case, hence the current set up. One option may be to delete the link and comment count from the front page template and just remember to always add a link at the bottom of the post to take visitors to the duplicate, comment-enabled thread.

Well, whadaya know?There was an option in the Admin Control Panel to fix this very issue. I just hadn't spotted it before because the description of it isn't very helpful. I guess I can delete the duplicate forum, now.